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Duration 21 hours
Course Outline
Core Principles of Cloud Operations on AWS
- Defining operational roles and responsibilities within the cloud ecosystem.
- Understanding AWS account hierarchies, organizational structures, and multi-account strategies.
- Key operational services: an overview of CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Provisioning
- Exploring IaC principles and the concept of immutable infrastructure.
- Implementing provisioning workflows with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Managing state files, modular design, and environment promotion strategies.
CI/CD Pipelines and Deployment Methodologies
- Designing CI/CD pipelines optimized for cloud-native applications.
- Implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies.
- Automating rollback mechanisms, health checks, and release validation processes.
Monitoring, Observability, and Alerting Systems
- Handling metrics, logs, and traces: ingestion, storage, and analysis.
- Utilizing CloudWatch, X-Ray, and third-party observability platforms.
- Establishing SLOs/SLIs, alerting policies, and effective on-call practices.
Security Operations and Identity Governance
- Applying IAM best practices, least privilege principles, and cross-account access controls.
- Managing secrets, KMS integration, and secure parameter stores.
- Operational security measures: patching strategies, vulnerability scanning, and audit trail maintenance.
Resilience, Backups, and Disaster Recovery
- Architecting for fault tolerance and high availability.
- Developing backup strategies, automated snapshotting, and restore procedures.
- Planning disaster recovery scenarios and creating comprehensive runbooks.
Cost Optimization and Governance
- Enhancing cost visibility through billing analysis, tagging, and cost allocation strategies.
- Rightsizing resources, utilizing reserved instances/savings plans, and implementing budget controls.
- Enforcing governance through policies, guardrails, and automated compliance checks.
Containers, Serverless Architectures, and Runtime Operations
- Operational considerations for managing ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
- Configuring service discovery, autoscaling, and resource limits.
- Logging, tracing, and debugging techniques for containerized workloads.
Incident Response, Playbooks, and Chaos Engineering
- Implementing runbook-driven incident response and conducting postmortem analyses.
- Automating remediation processes and establishing self-healing patterns.
- Introduction to chaos experiments for validating system resilience.
Practical Workshop: Managing a Sample Workload
- Deploying a sample application using IaC and a CI/CD pipeline.
- Setting up monitoring, alerts, and automated remediation scripts.
- Simulating incidents and practicing runbook-based response procedures.
Conclusion and Future Recommendations
Requirements
- Foundational knowledge of cloud computing concepts and network architecture.
- Proficiency with the Linux command line and scripting languages.
- Practical experience with source control systems (such as Git) and fundamental CI/CD principles.
Target Audience
- Cloud operations engineers.
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineers.
- DevOps engineers and technical team leaders.
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